Unique designs, smart engineering, and serious performance defined this year’s CES PC haul. These are our favorites across 11 categories of hardware.

The EliteBoard is a full-fledged desktop PC, based on a Ryzen mobile CPU, stuffed into a thin keyboard. (Think Commodore 64, but way skinnier and way more powerful.) Reviving this decades-old design ...

A Framework…desktop? Yes, and it’s coming soon: the Framework Desktop harnesses Framework’s talent for building modular PCs and applies it to desktops — and AMD’s killer Ryzen AI Max processor (also ...

Framework’s modular, upgradeable laptops have made it a darling of PC fans, making some of the best elements of desktops portable. So, why would Framework design a desktop PC? To find out, PCWorld’s ...

What if your next desktop PC could grow with you, adapt to your evolving needs, and reflect your personal style—all without breaking a sweat? The Framework Desktop promises to do just that, redefining ...

Mini PCs made me rethink what a desktop should be ...

Forward-looking: As someone who's tracked the PC industry for a long time, I've certainly fallen into the camp that innovation in PC design has become stagnant. After all, we've had a whole bunch of ...

TL;DR: Acer's Predator Orion 3000 gaming PC, unveiled at Computex 2025, combines compact design with high-performance hardware, including Intel Core Ultra 7 265F, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, up to 32GB ...

A reliable desktop PC is a necessity for professionals and students alike. They’re not portable like laptops, but desktop computers provide stable performance that you can improve over time by ...

What if your PC case could fold flat, pack up like a briefcase, and still turn heads with its minimalist design? Enter Teenage Engineering’s “Computer-2,” a bold reimagining of what a compact ...